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oliverstoned 
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 Posted: June 24 2011 at 11:18 |
 Triceratopsoil wrote:
Never milk, that is just grotesque. Sugar if it is something black.
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That's it
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Dean
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:03 |
oliverstoned wrote:
Dean wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
But I've way too many UK citizens pouring boiling water over the tea, and that's not doing youself a favour either...you're over-brewing it... especially black teas....
although with over-smoked lapsuchong or watchemacallit teas, it doesn't matter anyway... you feel like drinking from an ashtray)
Nope if you're waiting for your water to heavy boil, it's way too hot... The water should be simmering (frémissant in French), which means roughly 95°C... so the surface should have ripples, but not boils
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As I said - it depends on the type of tea, and even in black teas it depends on the variety - Brits prefer strong Indian tea, and that requires freshly boiled water (between 98-99°C) that still contains plenty of oxygen in it (never re-boil the water). The way the French brew tea is okay - that odd 3°C isn't going to make as much difference, it just takes a little longer to brew - anyway, the French (and Belgians) brew far better coffee than tea - we're getting better at coffee, but still tend to over-roast the beans to bitterness. |
The infusion time, the temperature and even the teapot shape (which influences temperature according to its shape) depends from one strain to another. For example, white tea (the best) is not easy to prepare well, requires 70°C and from 10 to 25 minutes of infusion; several passes can be made. |
For once we agree 
(pre-heat the pot of course, never make tea in a cold teapot).
The more I drink it, the more I'm liking white tea - (no milk, no sugar) - but yes, not boiling water and long infusion.
Flavoured teas are an abomination - that's like some demented new-age nonalcoholic alcoh-pop.
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lazland
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:07 |
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I'm a philistine. Typhoo tea bag, boiling water, milk, sugar.
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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The Pessimist
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:12 |
I went through a black tea and lemon phase but forsome reason unbeknownst to me it suddenly started making me feel sick  tasted good though, shame  Now I'm just a mere tea mortal, with PG tips and milk w/ no sugar.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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Negoba
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:24 |
Almost no bottled tea is any good, even if unsweetened and straightforward. I still drink it in a pinch though.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:23 |
Dean wrote:
Flavoured teas are an abomination - that's like some demented new-age nonalcoholic alcoh-pop. |
Aye, my mother is far too interested in flavoured herbal teas; I can't even bring myself to drink such a thing.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:51 |
Milk and Sugar. To all who disagree..well screw you 
Edited by JJLehto - June 24 2011 at 13:51
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Padraic
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:52 |
JJLehto wrote:
Milk and Sugar.
To all who disagree..well screw you
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u mad bro?
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UndercoverBoy
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:56 |
JJLehto wrote:
Milk and Sugar.
To all who disagree..well screw you
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It's the only way I can stand it. I guess I'm in the minority of those who don't like tea.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:02 |
Well, I love Tea but quite a few here seem ready to scoff at sugar and milk and probably say "thats not tea!!!!" Yes, Pat I am quite indignant brother.
Edited by JJLehto - June 24 2011 at 14:02
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Mushroom Sword
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:35 |
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Never had it.
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Earendil
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:42 |
Milk in tea? 
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Icarium
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:45 |
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I like bland tea, that taste like dishwater......
.naaah, but yeah i like mostly straight coffee but some T-spoon with suger dosent hurt,
also Chai-Tea can be cool to, but only two times in a year..
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The Pessimist
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:47 |
Eärendil wrote:
Milk in tea?
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Yeah man! My family's been doing it for years I was ostricised once for having my tea black... never again.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 15:10 |
90% of the time no milk no sugar. It pretty much ruins the tea unless you're drinking dirt in the first place.
When I make a white tea / fruit iced tea I'll use a little bit of raw honey to counter the tart of the fruit.
When I drink Irish Breakfast tea I use a little milk and rock sugar to counter the initial taste of that blend which is uncharacteristically strong and designed to be used with milk.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 16:16 |
Nothing in it. I'm a purist. Not that I chew on tea leaves . I mean I do put some hot water on it. |
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topographicbroadways
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 16:18 |
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Always milk. Never sugar
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Evolver
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 17:00 |
Tea?
Uh, “far out”, Catherwood, just roll us a couple of “bombers” and leave them on the side table.
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Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 18:53 |
oliverstoned wrote:
No LEMON, please in a real tea. No milk as well and no sugar please, except in maroccan mint tea of course. |
Kind of disagree with you... in Earl or Lady Grays (my fave black tea mixes ), freshly squeezed citrus fruits are very welcome
green teas are best drunk slightly sugared, IMHO, but that's all
Indeed morroccan mint teas are about the ony way I can ingest mint.
white tea, I like it, but I must say that it's difficult to brew it good
in special tea shops, there are mixes (morrocan mixes with dates, flowers) that can be brewed 20-minutes at room temperature ... awesome
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Not much a coffee man though (except beans crushed in chocolate), but once in a while an expresso in which I add cream (not milk) and sugar >>> I tried some of those origin cups of coffee like Blue Mountain Jamaica or Costa Rica in specialized shop... I sip it black at first, and then I drown it in cream and sugar.... simply can't enjoy it black... I guess it's not my cuppa... 
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Slaughternalia
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 19:12 |
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It depends on the tea. I'm not going to add milk into my green tea, but I will to my earl grey
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I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
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